The "other" ...uh woman?!

Don't get your panties in a wad...it isn't what you think. Granted, there a tinge of jealousy between us two, I know I have the upper hand..after all, he sleeps next to me every night ;) But now that you know how I feel about it...meet Derick's "new fling"

He's had this finished for a couple months now, but I just got the chance to snap some pictures of it while we were up at the cabin this weekend. I really didn't think he would drive it much...but we take this thing everywhere. I'm glad he has one more thing crossed off his list-although now I know he's going to be working on me to sell my truck and buy a GT500...but that won't be happening anytime soon. I mean...where would I put my saddle in a Mustang?! A girl's gotta have a place for her saddle ;)



Here's what Derick thinks of that rebuttle:

(I've censored this for your own good!)

Anyway,

...the "other woman" makes him happy, so that makes me happy :)

Ayden's Pirate Birthday!

I can't believe how big he's getting!! We had a ton of fun with his pirate birthday/water party...and of course we just had to get into a water fight! My sister did such a good job putting everything together, and the decorations were so stinkin cute. She had a little issue getting the cake done, but it turned out super cute. See her post here.

See ALL the pictures on my facebook album here

Oh yeah...

Check out my baby tomatoe plant I've grown from a seed :) Yeah...I'm stroking my own ego here...I'm pretty proud of this little guy!

Euphoria anyone?? YES PLEASE!

When I was young, my family will attest to the fact that I was always an outside girl. Playing in the yard, or begging Dad to take me with him to the farm so I could ride the horse...but unfortunately, I was also a horrible procrastinator. Some days, I'd have chores I'd been assigned-ie: clean your room, clean your bathroom, dust your...everything, but since I was a procrastinator, I'd find ANYTHING to do...EXCEPT what I'd been asked. This little chip I had on my shoulder caused me to be inside ALL DAY LONG!

Don't ask me why I didn't just get my ass up and do my chores so I could go outside, as I'm not sure WHY I did this. All I know is that I'd sit in my room on my bed, and look out my window...longing to be out in the elements.

Now, 18 years later, I've grown out of the procrastination issue (for the most part?!)...but my longing to be outside has always retained a special place in my heart. But...since we moved into our house a year ago, this place hasn't entirely felt like home...until now!

So, what does my procrastination versus my love for the outdoors have to do with the price of rice in China you may ask?? WELL, MY YARD IS DONE .....AND IT ONLY TOOK 2 WEEKS THANKS TO THE WONDERFUY GUYS AT FirstGreenLawns!!

I can not even tell you how much I'm enjoying my yards now! I can now call my home...HOME!

All of the pictures on this post are un-edited, Straight Out of Camera (or SOOC) images...but this one is my favorite of the evening! I had some INSANE settings going on. That may look like the moon behind a tree...but actually, that's the SUN! I took this tonight at 6:20 pm

50mm 1.4 lens---f/22, SS:1/2500, ISO 100

Landscape!!

I can't tell you how excited I am about getting a yard this Spring!! I'm so sick of having to see my neighbor's (behind us) trashy yards...not that ours is any better right now, haha. I also can't wait to have a fence up so they're not always staring at what we're doing, and so their kids won't pester my poor pooch when he's out on his line. We just got our design idea back from our landscape people, and I LOVE IT!! We won't have a ton of grass, which is nice (less grass for Coop to dig up!).

We haven't given them the "go ahead" yet...but I'm sure we will soon. Whaddya think??

Vegas

So we went to Vegas for Derick's birthday...and can you believe I didn't take not ONE picture?! haha, yeah...I know, I'm retarded! Most of the places we went to though wouldn't allow them...so I just always left it in my room! We did a TON of stuff, including the Cirque du Soleil & Criss Angel show, Believe. I absolutely loved it!! Needless to say, no pictures were allowed there either! haha...oh well, atleast we'll always have our memories :)

Ghost 2!!

So, just a few minutes ago, I was sitting her at my computer and all of sudden the surround sound in the game room started getting loud, LoUdEr, then EXTREMELY LOUD! D is in there playing Call of Duty 4 online with his friends, so I ran in there. He said that he was just playing and all of a sudden the sound increased really loudly, really quickly! The remote for that was sitting ontop of the box on the otherside of the room!! He got up and tried to turn it down the dial, and nothing happened, so he just turned off the power!! Yeah, she's ticked today!!